ultraMicrobiologist

Sorry to rain on your parade but SVD and Galil arent based on AK and as such aren't variants of the same gun. Galil is the closest as its based on RK-62 a Finnish redesign of the original AK-47, there are lots of similarities but also differences and they don't use the same ammo also different iron sights and all wooden parts replaced with steel and plastic. They do however have the same gas based reloading mechanism. SVD is not based on AK, does not use the same ammo as AK (unless you have the 5.45 variant) , and while there are similarities like the fire selector, iron sights they are primarily cosmetic, not really surprising as they were designed by the same people who did AK.